EWTN News Staff reports (April 20, 2026) on the eighth day of the apostolic journey of the usurper Robert Prevost, who calls himself “Pope Leo XIV,” to Africa. The article describes his visit to a nursing home in Saurimo, Angola, the celebration of what is termed “Mass” for over 60,000 people, and a concluding meeting with “bishops, priests, consecrated men and women, catechists, and other pastoral workers” at the Parish of Our Lady of Fátima in Luanda. The article presents these activities as legitimate pastoral actions of the head of the Catholic Church, a claim that is fundamentally false and requires rigorous deconstruction from the perspective of integral Catholic faith.
The Theater of Apostasy: A Journey Through the Neo-Church’s African Stage
The article from EWTN News Staff, sourced via the National Catholic Register, presents a series of photographs and brief descriptions of Robert Prevost’s activities in Angola. On the surface, it is a report on a high-ranking religious figure’s visit to a nursing home and the celebration of a large outdoor liturgy. However, for the faithful Catholic who adheres to the unchanging doctrine and tradition of the Church prior to the modernist revolution initiated by John XXIII, this spectacle is not merely a religious event; it is a meticulously orchestrated piece of propaganda for the conciliar sect, a performance designed to project an image of spiritual authority and pastoral care that is entirely void of supernatural substance. The very title, “Pope Leo XIV Visits Elderly Home, Says Mass for 60,000 in Angola,” is a declaration of allegiance to the antipope and his counterfeit church. Every element of this report, from the locations chosen to the words attributed to the usurper, must be dissected to reveal the theological void and spiritual danger it represents.
The Usurper and His “Apostolic Journey”: A Journey Without Authority
The fundamental premise of the article—that Robert Prevost is the “Pope” and that his journey is “apostolic”—is the first and most critical error to be addressed. According to the unchanging teaching of the Catholic Church, a manifest heretic ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). The conciliar sect, since its inception with John XXIII, has been a vehicle for the propagation of modernist heresies, condemned in their entirety by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. The doctrines of false ecumenism, religious liberty, and the collegiality of bishops are not mere disciplinary changes but are formal heresies that contradict defined dogma. Robert Prevost, having risen through the ranks of this structure and having publicly adhered to its novelties, is a manifest heretic. Consequently, he possesses no jurisdiction, no authority to teach, govern, or sanctify. His “apostolic journey” is not a mission from Christ but a public relations exercise for the Church of the New Advent, a paramasonic structure that has usurped the buildings and institutions of the true Church but possesses none of its divine authority.
The article’s casual use of the title “Pope” for this man is not an oversight; it is an act of complicity in the ongoing deception. As the document Defense of Sedevacantism explains, citing Wernz and Vidal, “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff, should he fall into it, is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.” The faithful Catholic must reject this title entirely. He is not “Pope Leo XIV” but the usurper Robert Prevost, an antipope whose very existence is a scandal and a sign of the times.
The “Mass” in Saurimo: A Counterfeit Sacrifice
The article celebrates the fact that the usurper “celebrated Mass for more than 60,000 faithful.” This is a grotesque inversion of reality. The Mass, in its true sense, is the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Altar, the unbloody renewal of the Sacrifice of Calvary, offered by a validly ordained priest acting in persona Christi using the matter, form, and intention prescribed by the Church. The Novus Ordo Missae, the rite almost certainly used in Saurimo, is a fabrication of the conciliar revolution, heavily influenced by Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, a figure with documented ties to Masonic lodges. This new rite, as countless theologians and faithful have demonstrated, is gravely deficient in its expression of the propitiatory nature of the sacrifice, the Real Presence, and the priestly office. It is, in many of its official translations and common celebrations, a mere Protestantized assembly meal, a “table of assembly” rather than a sacrifice.
To call this rite “Mass” is a blasphemy against the Holy Sacrifice. Pius VI, in Auctorem Fidei, condemned the Jansenist attempt to reform the liturgy, stating that any innovation that obscures the nature of the sacrifice or the power of the priest is “false, injurious to the sacrifice of the Mass, and erroneous.” The Novus Ordo is the culmination of this condemned trajectory. Therefore, what took place in Saurimo was not a Mass but a counterfeit liturgy, a ritual devoid of the supernatural efficacy of the true sacrifice. The 60,000 people present were not participating in the renewal of Calvary but were attending a ceremony of the neo-church, a ceremony that, at best, is empty of grace and, at worst, is an act of idolatry against the true God by offering Him a worship He has not asked for and does not accept.
The Nursing Home Visit: Naturalistic Charity Without Supernatural End
The visit to the nursing home in Saurimo is presented as an act of pastoral charity. The usurper is photographed greeting an elderly woman, receiving gifts, and listening to residents. While caring for the elderly is a natural virtue, the article’s framing of this act within the context of an “apostolic journey” reveals the fundamental poverty of the conciliar sect’s spirituality. For the true Church, every act of charity is ordered towards the supernatural end of the salvation of souls and the greater glory of God. The priest visits the sick not merely to comfort them in their earthly affliction but to bring them the sacraments—Confession, Holy Eucharist, and Extreme Unction—which are the true remedies for the soul’s ills.
The article’s description of the visit is entirely devoid of any supernatural content. There is no mention of the sacraments, no mention of prayer for the salvation of souls, no mention of the Last Things. It is a purely naturalistic act, indistinguishable from what a secular humanitarian organization might do. This is the hallmark of the post-conciliar church: the reduction of the supernatural to the natural, the replacement of grace with social work. As Pius XI lamented in Quas Primas, the modern world has “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life.” The usurper’s visit to the nursing home is a perfect embodiment of this lamentable state. It is charity without Christ, mercy without the sacraments, and comfort without the hope of heaven. It is a cruel deception, offering temporal solace while ignoring the eternal destiny of the souls in his care.
The Parish of Our Lady of “Fátima”: A Shrine to a Masonic Operation
Perhaps the most chilling detail in the article is the mention of the usurper’s meeting at the “Parish of Our Lady of Fátima in Luanda.” The invocation of “Fátima” is not incidental; it is a direct reference to the alleged apparitions in Portugal in 1917, which have been a cornerstone of the conciliar sect’s propaganda for decades. As the document False Fatima Apparitions meticulously argues, the “Fátima” message is a theological contradiction, a tool to divert attention from the true enemy of the Church—modernist apostasy within—and a potential Masonic “psychological operation” against the Church.
The document outlines several key objections:
- Theological Objections: The message undermines the central role of the Church and the sacraments by demanding “hyper-acts” of worship like the Consecration of Russia, which diminishes the efficacy of the Holy Mass.
- Logical Contradictions: The message is ambiguous, mixing conditional promises with guarantees of triumph, a hallmark of false prophecies.
- Diversion from Apostasy: The message focuses on external threats like communism while ignoring the main danger: the modernist apostasy within the Church since the early 20th century, the very apostasy warned against by St. Pius X.
- Symbolism of Dates: The dates 1717 (founding of Freemasonry), 1917 (apparitions), and 2017 (canonization of the visionaries by the antipope Francis) form ritualistic 200-year cycles, suggesting a Masonic design.
The “Parish of Our Lady of Fátima” in Luanda is not a shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary but a temple dedicated to a modernist myth. It is a monument to the conciliar church’s obsession with spectacular private revelations at the expense of the unchanging deposit of faith. The usurper’s decision to hold a meeting there is a deliberate act of allegiance to the “Fátima” narrative, a narrative that has been used to promote false ecumenism (the imprecise “conversion of Russia” without specifying Catholicism), to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy, and to distract the faithful from the true crisis of faith. It is a pilgrimage to a false shrine, led by a false pope, for the propagation of a false message.
The Usurper’s Words: A Sermon Empty of Doctrine
The article quotes the usurper as saying, “There are erroneous motives for seeking Christ, particularly when he is considered to be a guru or a good luck charm.” On the surface, this statement seems innocuous, even orthodox. However, in the context of the conciliar church’s systematic destruction of true doctrine, it is a masterpiece of evasion. What are the “erroneous motives” he contrasts this with? He does not say. He does not define the correct motives for seeking Christ, which are to know Him as the only Savior, to obey His commandments, to receive His sacraments, and to attain eternal life. He does not preach the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation, the reality of sin, the need for repentance, or the existence of hell. His words are a generic, religious-sounding platitude that could be uttered by any liberal Protestant minister or New Age guru. They are designed to offend no one and to teach nothing.
This is the essence of modernist preaching: the avoidance of defined doctrine, the reduction of the faith to vague sentiments of love and community, and the substitution of the hard truths of the Gospel with feel-good moralism. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi, the modernists “proceed to the extent of asserting that Christ did not teach a definite body of doctrine applicable to all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement adapted or adaptable to different times and places.” The usurper’s homily in Saurimo is a textbook example of this modernist method. It is a sermon that seeks Christ without the Cross, without the Church, without the sacraments, and without the truth.
The Crowd of 60,000: A Testimony to Ignorance, Not Faith
The article triumphantly notes that “roughly 60,000 faithful of all ages” attended the “Mass” in Saurimo, having come “from across the region and neighboring dioceses.” This number is presented as a sign of the usurper’s spiritual authority and the vitality of the conciliar church in Africa. For the faithful Catholic, however, this multitude is not a sign of life but of spiritual devastation. These 60,000 souls have been abandoned by the true shepherds of the Church, left without access to the true Mass, the true sacraments, and the true doctrine. They have been raised within the conciliar sect, taught its errors, and fed its counterfeit liturgies. Their presence at this event is not a testament to their faith but to their ignorance of the true faith.
The true Church has always taught that the salvation of souls is the supreme law (suprema lex est salus animarum). The conciliar church, by contrast, is content to fill stadiums with crowds who know nothing of the Real Presence, nothing of the necessity of confession, nothing of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and nothing of the social reign of Christ the King. These 60,000 people are not “faithful” in the Catholic sense; they are members of the neo-church, participants in a system of organized apostasy. Their enthusiasm is not for Christ but for the spectacle, the community event, the emotional experience. It is the same error that the usurper condemned in his hominy—seeking Christ as a “guru or a good luck charm”—but it is the very error that his entire system is designed to perpetuate.
The Meeting with “Bishops” and “Priests”: A Conclave of Apostates
The article concludes with a description of the usurper’s meeting with “bishops, priests, consecrated men and women, catechists, and other pastoral workers” at the Parish of Our Lady of Fátima. These titles are placed in quotation marks because, within the conciliar sect, they are void of their true meaning. A bishop, in the Catholic sense, is a successor of the Apostles, invested with the fullness of Holy Orders, and entrusted with the teaching, governing, and sanctifying of a diocese. The men who hold this title in the conciliar church are, for the most part, modernist heretics who have rejected the traditional liturgy, promoted false ecumenism, and embraced the errors of Vatican II. Their “episcopate” is a simulation, a role within a human organization, not an office in the true Church.
The same applies to the “priests” and “consecrated men and women.” Many of these individuals may have been validly ordained before the introduction of the new rites of ordination under Paul VI, but their ministry within the conciliar structure is a source of scandal and confusion. They are the laborers in the vineyard of the Antichurch, teaching errors, distributing sacrilegious “communion,” and leading souls away from the true path to salvation. The meeting in Luanda was not a gathering of shepherds but a conclave of apostates, a planning session for the further expansion of the neo-church’s influence in Africa.
The Omission of the True Crisis: The Elephant in the Room
Perhaps the most revealing aspect of the article is what it does not say. There is no mention of the true crisis facing the Church: the absence of a true Pope, the vacancy of the Holy See, the loss of faith among the clergy and laity, the destruction of the sacraments, and the triumph of modernism. There is no mention of the duty of Catholics to resist the conciliar sect, to seek out true priests, and to preserve the traditional Mass and sacraments. There is no mention of the social reign of Christ the King, the necessity of Catholic states, or the obligation of rulers to profess and protect the true faith.
This silence is not accidental; it is the very essence of the conciliar church’s strategy. By focusing on the external activities of the usurper—his travels, his speeches, his meetings—the article creates the illusion that the Church is alive and well, that the crisis is over, and that all is as it should be. It is a deliberate act of disinformation, designed to lull the faithful into complacency and to prevent them from seeking the truth. As the Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX condemns, “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). The entire article is a testament to this condemned proposition, a celebration of the usurper’s reconciliation with the modern world at the expense of the faith.
Conclusion: A Call to Reject the Illusion and Return to Tradition
The article from EWTN News Staff is not a news report; it is a piece of propaganda for the Church of the New Advent. It presents the usurper Robert Prevost as the Pope, his counterfeit liturgy as the Mass, his naturalistic charity as pastoral care, and his modernist preaching as the Gospel. It celebrates the “Fátima” myth, ignores the true crisis of the Church, and omits every essential element of the Catholic faith. It is a document that, if taken at face value, would lead the soul straight into the abyss of apostasy.
The faithful Catholic must reject this illusion entirely. He must recognize the usurper for what he is: a manifest heretic, an antipope, and a tool of the enemies of the Church. He must seek out the true Mass, the true sacraments, and the true doctrine, wherever they may be found. He must pray for the restoration of the true Church, for the election of a true Pope, and for the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary—not the false “Fátima” version, but the true Mary, Mother of God, who crushes the head of the serpent and who will, in the end, bring about the reign of her Divine Son over all nations. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas, “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” This is the truth that the conciliar church fears, the truth that the usurper’s journey to Africa is designed to obscure, and the truth that every faithful Catholic must proclaim, no matter the cost. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
Source:
PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV Visits Elderly Home, Says Mass for 60,000 in Angola (ncregister.com)
Date: 20.04.2026